transfering virtual machines from a stand alone ESXi Host to a Farm gives me a warning : Cannot find a system volume for reconfiguration.

i have been trying to work out the best procedure to transfer a few virtual machines we had configured on stand alone ESXi hosts, to our Farm. We are using ESXi 4.1. The best method I have found to date is using the VMWARE stand alone converter 4.3. I am able to point to the source, then log into the destination, specify datastores, version, etc then let it transfer. I have done it 3 times so far today and they all ran smoothly. I have only used test VMs though, but next weekend I plan to transfer our main SQL server, there is 527GB of data and obviously, this is a big deal if something does not transfer properly. The only issue I have seen is near the end of the transfer, I get the above warning: "Cannot find a system volume for reconfiguration." and after I log in for the first time it tells me I need to restart a few seconds later. Other then that, everything seems fine and once I reboot the servers appear to be functioning perfectly. Is this warning something I should be concerned about? The servers are running Windows 2008, if that matters

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thanks for all the input, since I was playing with test servers and will soon delete them from disk, I do not see a need to install vmware tools, but that is good advice for my live transfer. Since I shut down the vm before I start the transfer, it is still god practice to shut down SQL service manually first? I did not think of that part. And yes I am aware of the time commitment involved. The live server I will be moving is 576GB and our mail SQL server. I actually estimate 20-23 hours to complete this procedure, so obviously this is a weekend project. I will check out all your hints and tips too...thanks

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